With over 15 years experience of curating in gallery spaces and public art commissioning Tony Trehy is one of the leading visual art project leaders.

Tony created the Irwell Sculpture Trail, one of the UK’s largest public art schemes which has enabled him to work with some of the most significant artists on the international scene. While his origination of Text Festival has been recognised as one of the most significant global manifestations of the emerging of field of language based arts, poetics, conceptual art and multi-media, an international debate which Trehy has been central in defining.